Mark Kurlansky

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Massachusetts

A Novel in Sixteen Parts

All-new stories about the food we share, love, and fight over from the national bestselling author of Cod and Salt.

In these linked stories, Mark Kurlansky reveals the bond that can hold people together, tear them apart, or make them become vegan: food. Through muffins or hot dogs, an indigenous Alaskan fish soup, a bean curd Thanksgiving turkey or potentially toxic crème brulee, a rotating cast of characters learns how to honor the past, how to realize you're not in love with someone any more, and how to forgive. These women and men meet and eat and love, leave and drink and in the end, come together in Seattle as they are as inextricably linked with each other as they are with the food they eat and the wine they drink.

Kurlansky brings a keen eye and unerring sense of humanity to these stories. And throughout, his love and knowledge of food shows just how important a role what we eat plays in our lives.

Edible Stories

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Martha Beck

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The Science and Magic of Finding Your Destiny

Outlines a step-by-step process for reconnecting with one's life purpose, drawing on research in psychiatry and neurology while sharing inspirational tips for changing one's perspective, overcoming roadblocks, and experiencing greater fulfillment.

Steering by Starlight

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Elizabeth Kolbert

The Nature of the Future

Under a White Sky

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John Updike

Henry Green

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

The Uncollected Writings of Henry Green

Surviving

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Don Miguel Ruiz

Don Jose Ruiz

Janet Mills

A Practical Guide to Self-Mastery

In The Four Agreements, don Miguel Ruiz revealed how the process of our education, or "domestication," can make us forget the wisdom we were born with. Throughout our lives, we make many agreements that go against ourselves and create needless suffering. The Four Agreements help us to break these self-limiting agreements and replace them with agreements that bring us personal freedom, happiness, and love. In The Fifth Agreement, don Miguel Ruiz joins his son, don Jose Ruiz, to offer a fresh perspective on The Four Agreements, and a powerful new agreement for transforming our lives into our personal heaven. The Fifth Agreement takes us to a deeper level of awareness of the power of the Self, and returns us to the authenticity we were born with. In this compelling sequel to the book that has changed the lives of millions of people around the world, we are reminded of the greatest gift we can give ourselves: the freedom to be who we really are.

The Fifth Agreement

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Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

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The News From Spain

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Natasha Lester

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Paris Orphan comes an unforgettable historical novel about a secret collection of Dior gowns that ties back to the first female pilots of WWII and a heartbreaking story of love and sacrifice. England, 1939: The Penrose sisters couldn't be more different. Skye is a daring and brash pilot, and Liberty the one to defy her at every turn. Even if women aren't allowed in the Royal Air Force, Skye is determined to help the war effort. She's thrilled when it reunites her with her childhood soulmate, Nicholas. She's less thrilled to learn Nicholas is now engaged to an enigmatic Frenchwoman named Margaux Jourdan. Paris, 1947: Designer Christian Dior unveils his glamorous first collection to a world weary of war and grief. He names his debut fragrance Miss Dior in tribute to his beloved sister Catherine, who forged a friendship with Skye and Margaux through her work with the French Resistance. Present Day: Fashion conservator Kat Jourdan discovers a priceless collection of Dior gowns in her grandmother's vacant cottage. As she delves into the mystery of their origin, Kat begins to doubt everything she thought she knew about her beloved grandmother.

The Paris Secret

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Thomas Merton

The Story of a Vocation: 1939-1941

This is the first volume of Merton's journals, covering his time teaching at Columbia University and living at Greenwich Village, having just received his Master's degree. As the journal closes he heads for Gethsemane in Kentucky, to become a Trappist monk.

Run to the Mountain

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Michel Houellebecq

Frank Wynne

Half-brothers Michel and Bruno have a mother in common but little else.

Michel is a molecular biologist, a thinker and idealist, a man with no erotic life to speak of and little in the way of human society.

Bruno, by contrast, is a libertine, though more in theory than in practice, his endless lust is all too rarely reciprocated.

Both are symptomatic members of our atomised society, where religion has given way to shallow 'new age' philosophies and love to meaningless sexual connections.

Atomised tells the stories of the two brothers, but the real subject of the novel is the dismantling of contemporary society and its assumptions, its political incorrectness, and its caustic and penetrating asides on everything from anthropology to the problem pages of girls' magazines. A dissection of modern lives and loves. By turns funny, acid, infuriating, didactic, touching and visceral.

Atomised

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Rhonda Byrne

The Greatest Secret, the long-awaited major work by Rhonda Byrne, lays out the next quantum leap in a journey that will take the reader beyond the material world and into the spiritual realm, where all possibilities exist. The book reflects Rhondas own journey, and shares the most direct way out for those experiencing hardship and the path to end pain and suffering endured by so many, and shines a light on a future without anxiety or fear. Filled with accessible practices that can be immediately put to use and profound revelations that take the reader on an incomparable journey, Rhondas discovery is reinforced throughout by the revelatory words of sages from around the world, past and present.

The Greatest Secret

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Argues that The Secret, a way of thinking, has been found in oral traditions throughout history and that by understanding it and using it in every aspect of life, money, health, and happiness will follow.

The Secret

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Jose Angel Valente

Tom Christensen

Selected Poems

For José Ángel Valente, the word was foremost. He was of a generation that came of age under the Franco dictatorship. But unlike many of his contemporaries, he did not often address political or social issues directly in his poems. His influence as a poetic force proved to be much deeper. From the outset Valente’s work was bold yet disciplined, immediate yet lyrical, combining poetic precision with a knack for capturing vital moments and a keen ear for musicality. His chief concern was poetry that explored and transcended itself: poetry as knowledge. A poet of unfailing integrity, he never wavered in his pursuit of the truth of the word. Exploring questions of love, loss, and the spirit, he stripped twentieth-century Spanish poetry of its rhetorical excesses, producing contemplative, introspective, and at times mystical verses, rejecting the facile and embracing silence. In his later years, he turned to stirring, highly distilled prose poems in such works as The Singer Does Not Awaken and Landscape with Yellow Birds. Then the clear melody of his early verse gave way to intensely resonant passages that folded in upon each other and opened startling vistas in unexpected directions. This is the first major selection of Valente’s work to appear in English.

Landscape with Yellow Birds

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Essays in Love

Nan Rae

Quotes from the World's Most Inspirational Thinkers

Quotes from the world's most inspirational thinkers artist and lecturer Nan Rae shares her favorite inspirational quotes, collected over many years. Paired with her award winning brush paintings, and bound in a unique and sumptuous Japanese style book binding, this is the next volume, after what If... we have the power to change our lives, in Nan's series of inspirational books. Lavishly illustrated on every page and artfully bound,That's Just What I Needed Today: Quotes from the world's most inspirational thinkers offers quotes of inspiration and insight into living our best lives from brilliant, thoughtful, and spiritual men and women from all over the world. Nan's very favorite quotes are rich and varied, some older and some newer and always 'just what I needed,' this is the gift book that offers words of wisdom and encouragement to everyone. If you find yourself feeling overburdened, stressed out, or just having a bad day That's Just What I Needed Today offers you the restart you need.

That's Just What I Needed Today

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Peter F. Drucker

With ambition, drive, and talent, you can rise to the top of your chosen profession regardless of where you started out. But companies today aren't managing your career-- you must be your own chief executive officer. It's up to you to carve out your place in the world and know when to change course. In this short work Drucker gives you the keys to unlock your full potential so that you can achieve true and lasting excellence.

Managing Oneself

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Martin Espada

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

A collection of poems touches subjects ranging from childhood memories, and experiences at work, to poems that examine political persecution

Imagine the Angels of Bread

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Sarah Menkedick

Early Motherhood on a Midwestern Farm

After teaching English to recalcitrant teenagers on Reunion Island, picking grapes in France, and witnessing a revolution in Mexico, Sarah Menkedick, at thirty-one, embarks on what might become her most challenging adventure yet- she moves into a tiny nineteenth-century cabin on her family's farm, and prepares to become a mother. She never expected to want this kind of settled life, and yet she finds a new peace and inspiration in the surrounding natural world as she and her husband, Jorge, prepare for the exciting unknown. Menkedick juxtaposes the progress of her pregnancy and the larger questions it inspires with recollections of her family history; being raised by a single and unapologetically hippie father; her paternal grandmother, Millie, whose Midwestern German fortitude informed the character of the next two generations; and her husband Jorge's loving but difficult childhood in Oaxaca, Mexico. All together, it becomes a luminous portrait of the time just before and after new motherhood.

Homing Instincts

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Tarana Burke

My Story of Liberation and the Birth of the Me Too Movement

"Searing. Powerful. Needed." —Oprah “Sometimes a single story can change the world. Unbound is one of those stories. Tarana’s words are a testimony to liberation and love.” —Brené Brown From the founder and activist behind one of the largest movements of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, the "me too" movement, Tarana Burke debuts a powerful memoir about her own journey to saying those two simple yet infinitely powerful words—me too—and how she brought empathy back to an entire generation in one of the largest cultural events in American history. Tarana didn’t always have the courage to say "me too." As a child, she reeled from her sexual assault, believing she was responsible. Unable to confess what she thought of as her own sins for fear of shattering her family, her soul split in two. One side was the bright, intellectually curious third generation Bronxite steeped in Black literature and power, and the other was the bad, shame ridden girl who thought of herself as a vile rule breaker, not of a victim. She tucked one away, hidden behind a wall of pain and anger, which seemed to work...until it didn’t. Tarana fought to reunite her fractured soul, through organizing, pursuing justice, and finding community. In her debut memoir she shares her extensive work supporting and empowering Black and brown girls, and the devastating realization that to truly help these girls she needed to help that scared, ashamed child still in her soul. She needed to stop running and confront what had happened to her, for Heaven and Diamond and the countless other young Black women for whom she cared. They gave her the courage to embrace her power. A power which in turn she shared with the entire world. Through these young Black and brown women, Tarana found that we can only offer empathy to others if we first offer it to ourselves. Unbound is the story of an inimitable woman’s inner strength and perseverance, all in pursuit of bringing healing to her community and the world around her, but it is also a story of possibility, of empathy, of power, and of the leader we all have inside ourselves. In sharing her path toward healing and saying "me too," Tarana reaches out a hand to help us all on our own journeys.

Unbound

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David Hempton

Nine Portraits of Faith and Doubt

David Hempton looks at evangelicalism through the lens of well-known individuals who once embraced the evangelical tradition, but later repudiated it. The author recounts the faith journeys of nine creative artists, social reformers, and public intellectuals of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. --from publisher description.

Evangelical Disenchantment

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Susan Vreeland

The New York Times bestselling luminous tale about art and human experience that is as breathtaking as any Vermeer painting “A little gem of a novel . . . [and a] beautifully written exploration of the power of art.” —Parade A professor invites a colleague from the art department to his home to see a painting that he has kept secret for decades. The professor swears it is a Vermeer—why has he hidden this important work for so long? The reasons unfold in a series of stories that trace ownership of the painting back to World War II and Amsterdam, and still further back to the moment of the work’s inspiration. As the painting moves through each owner’s hands, what was long hidden quietly surfaces, illuminating poignant moments in human lives. Vreeland’s characters remind us, through their love of the mysterious painting, how beauty transforms and why we reach for it, what lasts, and what in our lives is singular and unforgettable.

Girl in Hyacinth Blue

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Amy Ephron

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A Novel of 1917

A dark romantic novel set during World War I tells the story of a love triangle involving a woman of privilege, her fiance+a7, and an impoverished girl she invites in from the cold, to her own undoing. Reprint.

A Cup of Tea

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Jonathan Collins

Miracles, Mysteries and Epiphanies from Everyday Life

Gathered in coffee houses and cafes, each of the 17 stories found in this unique, inspirational book focuses on a simple truth that enables us to live creatively in a state of gratitude.

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Mark Kurlansky

Edible Stories

Martha Beck

Steering by Starlight

Elizabeth Kolbert

Under a White Sky

John Updike; Henry Green

Surviving

Don Miguel Ruiz; Don Jose Ruiz; Janet Mills

The Fifth Agreement

Gerad Pouchain

Choses Nocturnes

Joan Wickersham

The News From Spain

Natasha Lester

The Paris Secret

Thomas Merton

Run to the Mountain

Michel Houellebecq; Frank Wynne

Atomised

Rhonda Byrne

The Greatest Secret

Rhonda Byrne

The Secret

Jose Angel Valente; Tom Christensen

Landscape with Yellow Birds

Botton, Alain De

Essays in Love

Nan Rae

That's Just What I Needed Today

Peter F. Drucker

Managing Oneself

Martin Espada

Imagine the Angels of Bread

Sarah Menkedick

Homing Instincts

Tarana Burke

Unbound

David Hempton

Evangelical Disenchantment

Susan Vreeland

Girl in Hyacinth Blue

Amy Ephron

A Cup of Tea

Jonathan Collins

Insights from the CoffeeHouse

Emmanuel Iduma; Teju Cole; Abraham Oghobase

A Stranger's Pose

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